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Why guitarists USED TO play more in tune! (Microtonal Frets)
Brandon Acker
Classical guitarist Brandon Acker shows how guitars with tied-on gut frets, as used 300 years ago, can play more in tune than modern fixed metal frets. He demonstrates microtonal and meantone tunings on a guitar with movable frets.
Pointed to in tuning and temperament threads as an audible demonstration of how meantone differs from equal temperament.
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